Here is a list of documents in English which can be found on this Web site.

 

Italian Legislation on Accessibility:

• Law n. 4, January 9, 2004 - Provisions to support the access to information technologies for the disabled (also known as "The Stanca Act").
  
  
• Decree of the President of the Republic, March 1st 2005, No. 75
  Implementation Regulations for Law 4/2004 to promote the access for the disabled to computer technologies.
  
  
• Ministerial Decree, July 8 2005, containing the Technical Rules of Law 4/2004.
  
  

 

Papers on Accessibility:

• Document containing a full collection of the Italian legislation on accessibility
  (Word DOC format).
  
  
• "Legislation on eAccessibility: the Italian approach". A review of the background, birth and enforcement of the Italian body of laws on eAccessibility
  (Word DOC format).
  
  

• Guidelines containing the technical requirements, the definitions of the different accessibility levels and the technical methodologies for the testing of Web site accessibility - Law 4/2004, Article 11, Paragraph 1, Letters a) and b).
  
  
• Riga Ministerial Declaration, June 11 2006.
  
  
  

Useful links :

• World Wide Web Consortium (W3C)
  
  
• Web Accessibility Initiative (WAI)
  
  
• Section 508 of the Rehabilitation Act